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crosshairing

crosshairing is the present participle and gerund of crosshair.

Meaning of crosshair

Verb

crosshair (third-person singular simple present crosshairs, present participle crosshairing, simple past and past participle crosshaired)

  1. To focus on within a reticle.
    • Watching hopefully for a buck to come along behind the does, I eyed them through the scope of the borrowed .243. From time to time, I crosshaired the vital areas .1970, Nebraskaland - Volume 48, Issues 8-49, page 21
  2. (broadly) To target.
    • She fired a smile at him, the likes of which he hadn't seen in years—since Meg, in fact, had crosshaired him at the junior prom with one of those flirtations that he never would've believed the president of the Methodist Girls' Youth Group was capable of.1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave

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Questions about crosshairing

What is crosshairing the present participle and gerund of?
Crosshairing is the present participle and gerund of crosshair.

Words near crosshairing in the dictionary

  1. crossgrainedness
  2. crossguard
  3. crossguards
  4. crosshair
  5. crosshaired
  6. crosshairing
  7. crosshairs
  8. crosshanded
  9. crosshandedly
  10. crosshandedness
  11. crosshatch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosshairing (page history and authors); crosshair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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